The Montgomery Advertiser offers this report.

Following up on this post, see this report [corrected link] of the Special Master (more documents here). It looks like this case raises questions about whether votes should be disqualified for election worker error (like the 6th Circuit… Continue reading

Noah Feldman on why we should not want the Justices to recuse themselves at the drop of a hat, My brief blog comments on this point here.

See here.

AP offers this report from Texas, which begins: “A top Republican official who reviewed evidence in a disputed election ruled Friday that a Democratic House member won her seat by just four votes.”

The Texas Tribune offers this report about this new lawsuit.

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News from Wisconsin. Of course, the constitutionality of such a system of matching funds is currently before the U.S. Supreme Court in the McComish case.

A very interesting top story from Stateline.

The Congressional Research Service has released a report, The Help America Vote Act and Elections Reform: Overview and Issues. Meanwhile, Republican legislation is coming to the House to abolish the EAC.

At yesterday’s Emory conference, I got to get my hands on a copy of this new edited volume, which arose out of a Tobin project conference. The book is edited by Guy Charles, Heather Gerken, and Michael Kang,… Continue reading

Roll Call reports that DeLay’s lawyers have raised a First Amendment defense. Many have raised the question whether CU could affect the outcome of this case. I’d love to see the briefs to be able to evaluate that argument.

AP offers Last Trial in Abramoff Case Ends in Conviction of Former Aide.

Another must-read on the Kochs from Politico.